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You may have noticed I’ve been posting less often than normal this week. I’ve been busy this week attending the 2023 Georgia Climate Conference in Athens that was organized by the Georgia Climate Project. This meeting of over 500 university and government scientists, students, policymakers, business people, and social scientists discussed how the changes we…
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We are already halfway through May, so let’s take a look at the climate so far this month. The maps from the High Plains Regional Climate Center show that most of the region has been cooler than normal this month so far while rainfall has been less than normal almost everywhere. The exception is Florida,…
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Yale Climate Connections has an interesting explainer that discusses how the warmer temperatures we are seeing due to climate change are leading to an increase in droughts worldwide. For one thing, higher temperatures cause an increase in the speed and amount of evaporation, leading to drier soils and less runoff that can contribute to drought…
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Natural hazards do not have to cause disasters if communities are well prepared for them to occur, but often due to politics, economics, or happenstance this does not occur, leading to injury or even death, destruction, and the loss of community bonds. I don’t often recommend books in this blog but wanted to encourage you…
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Since we are in a typical summertime pattern of scattered rain, you can expect to be hit by some showers and missed by others every day this week. Total amounts for most of the region should be around an inch, but of course your results will vary. The driest period looks like it will occur…
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This week many of us were a little surprised to hear that the National Hurricane Center determined that a big swirl that meteorologists noticed in the Atlantic Ocean in January had qualified as an official subtropical storm after examination of additional weather data tabulated after the storm dissipated. Since NHC counts subtropical storms as part…
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NOAA released their latest monthly climate summary for the globe as a whole today and it showed that the earth as a whole was the 4th warmest month ever. The Southern Hemisphere saw its warmest month on record and the global oceans reached a record high temperature for April. For the year to date, it…
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